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On the day that George Osborne is due to deliver his 2012 Autumn statement, I thought it might be worth reminding ourselves of what he thought of the Irish economy in 2006 when, on 23 February he gave a speech
Continue readingMs Diana Cairns submitted a Freedom of Information request to the City of Edinburgh Council for information about what advice I have given to the Council, how much I have been paid and for copies of emails between myself and
Continue reading© Alicia Bruce Photography © Sophie Gerrard photography Michael Forbes Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Top Scot 2012
Continue readingThe Guardian are running a series of investigative articles on the use of offshore tax havens to acquire land & property in London. It was timely, therefore to see Steven Vaas’s article in the Herald on Monday which revealed that
Continue readingI am very grateful to Ross McConell for helping me to interpret Trump Golf Club Scotland’s accounts. (This post was originally published on 28 Feb 2012 and has been updated to include the 2011 Accounts) Many claims have been made
Continue reading(Following my tweets today – if you simply want the source for the statistics and brief descriptions of the functions of the various tiers, download and read Local and regional Government Structures in Europe. Structures and Competences published by the Council of European
Continue readingScottish Land & Estates members survey. The Scottish Government’s Land Reform Review Group was established in July 2012 and twelve advisers were appointed in October. It has issued a call for evidence to be submitted to it by 11
Continue readingThe Scottish Parliament has had its high points and its low points but the past couple of days has witnessed as woeful a low as I can remember. Scotland’s mainstream political parties appear to value petty point-scoring about who said
Continue readingToday’s contrasting images come on the day that over 30 Palestinians died in Gaza. They included the Dallo family in Jabalia refugee camp – that’s right a refugee camp – who lost 11 members when their house was attacked by Israeli rockets
Continue readingThe BBC website published a slideshow of images from the current conflict in Gaza. Two of them showed damage caused by Palestinian rockets. None showed the impact of Israeli missiles but after hunting around the BBC website I managed to
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